is undeniable that English is not an easy language to learn. Malaysian ESL students oftentimes find English to be rather confusing and difficult to learn. Pronunciation seems to trip most students up. Though the English language syllabus makes room for pronunciation skills to be included in classroom practices‚ many often have problems with the pronunciation of certain words. According to Abbas and Muhammad Reza (2011)‚ many ESL learners have “major difficulties” with English pronunciation even
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Section One Parts of Speech AL Diagnostic Tests Nouns Lessons and Activities Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs CO PY R IG Review Activities Final Tests HT Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections ED 3 MA TE RI Diagnostic Tests 5 Name Date Period Score % DIAGNOSTIC TEST 1 PARTS OF SPEECH For each underlined word in the following sentences‚ identify and then write the part of speech on the line next to the number. Each part of speech is
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Language is a social-cultural-geographical phenomenon. There is a deep relationship between language‚ culture and society. When we study a language‚ we have to study its dialects‚ register‚ slang‚ taboo‚ idiolects‚ etc. We can find the role of language and culture in The Parent Trap movie. The movie tells us about the differences culture of 2 girls who live in London and California. They were separated when they are baby. It was because their parents divorce. One of the
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❖ A ‘’Constructivist Approach’’ in grammar teaching helps inexperienced teachers understand the learning and teaching of aspect‚a core grammatical concept. ❖ The Constructivists’ approach to grammar involves teaching grammar in context.This simply means that grammar is taught using the students’ own writing as models. ❖ The constructivists’ approach helps students understand that evaluating grammar in their writing is a part of the revision process. ❖ Instructors using the
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OVERCOMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY By Saranda Nuredini Instructor: Luiza Zeqiri Course: ESP Communication I January 2012 “Sweaty palms‚ shaking hands‚ dry mouth and muscle tension mean for many of us‚ that we are about to speak in public. Couple this fear of speaking in public with performing or speaking in another language and the success of the speaker may be dramatically compromised” (Leigh‚ 2009). By having to speak in a foreign language‚ the amount of fear in us grows and transforms
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Abstract This study aims at finding out differences between Persian and English speakers’ patterns (macro and micro) of responding to compliments and observed some dissimilarity between them while accepting‚ rejecting and evading a compliment. This study also indicates whether Persian learners of English produce target- like compliments and compliment responses in English and whether pragmatic transfer can occur. Discourse completion tests (DCTs) were used to study the strategies employed when
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FOREIGN LANQUAGES IN OUR LIFE Language is human speech‚ either spoken or written. Language is the most common system of communication. It allows people to talk to each other and to write their thoughts and ideas. The word «language» may be loosely used to mean any system of communication‚ such as traffic light or Indian smoke signals. But the origin of the world shows its basic use. It comes from the Latin word «lingua»‚ meaning «tongue». And a language still is often called a tongue.
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Introduction All humans are born with a need to communicate. Language is the tool which allows them to do this. It begins very simply with crying sounds used to tell the parents how they are feeling and builds up quickly‚ by the age of 5 they can usually use a huge rane of words‚ put together in complex sentences to describe‚ question‚ discuss‚ express feelings etc. Language has to be learnt. All babies babble in some way‚ even deaf babies. Language development begins at birth – a new mothers first reaction
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Introduction: It has been almost two centuries that English education was introduced in India and since then it has been playing an important role in our national life‚ not to mention our educational system. Most people believe that the then British rulers needed some cheap native clerks who could work in their offices much like what Lord Macaulay called “a class of people‚ Indian in blood and color‚ but English in taste‚ in opinions‚ in morals and in intellect”. But I personally don’t hold this
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racie Allen of the comedy team of Burns and Allen was once asked how one should speak French. She replied‚ "Well‚ you speak it the same way you speak English; you just use different words." When trying to assist in instructing English language learners‚ they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master‚ as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have learned
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